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Sengoku 4 (8/24) at Saitama Super Arena
By Zach Arnold | August 24, 2008
The curse of the IFL continues, as Ryan Schultz lost to Mizuto Hirota by KO today. Eiji Mitsuoka pulled off a big win over Rodrigo Damm, and Satoru Kitaoka made Clay French submit. Full event results here and here.
Keep your eye on this post for videos from today’s event.
Update: For a second straight SSA show, Sengoku refused to release an attendance figure. Ouch. The main comment from Takanori Gomi that is getting press headlines in Japan after his fight is a simple one word comment: “Gomen.”
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I wouldn’t call it a curse as much. It’s just an indication that the level of talent in the company wasn’t that high.
Any guesses on the attendance figure? It was extremely hard to see the audience on TV. I guess the TV crew did an awesome job with the lighting if the acutal attendance was poor.
I don’t speak Japanese, but from a simple google search “Gomen” means “Sorry” or something along those lines? Is that right?
Zach,how long do you feel Sengoku can keep going with poor attendances and without a tv deal? It looks as though they have not caught the attention of the Japanese MMA fans at all.
Maybe you can tell me more but to me it looks as though the best thing for Dream and Sengoku is that they merge,what are the chances,if any,that this could happen?
If Dream gets a good rating for their next show then it puts them back on track,and with the names mentioned for Dream 6 they should get a good rating. The problem for Sengoku is where do they go from here?
i was there and the attendace was horrible. They nearly sold out VIP tickets, ROyal ringsidwe was three quarters full (tickets are 1000 dollars and 300 repeectively) Then the rest of the anerena was like between a half and a third full. My guess is maybe 10 000 people out of the 22 000 seats were full